Important changes to how we process your prize payments

We are changing the way how accumulated winnings are paid out to the Buxr members participating in our contests.

Effective immediately we will not send you your winnings unless you have requested a payment. Your prizes will be logged as usual in the 'My Activity' section of the contests page but now you will need to go to the (newly added) 'Balance' section and request a payment when your balance reaches $25.

Just a suggestion.... Some users might never get to $25 balance..or it might take them a looong time to get there... I believe it would be easier to pay all outstanding balances on the 1st of each month...just my 2 cents...

Emma, let me explain a bit where this limitation comes from and what is our logic.

1. The $25 limit have little effect on our active members who have been with us for a while and/or plan to stay with us in the future. Just look at how much each of them made last month.

2. Paying out each prize every week is time consuming and inefficient. It was taking Mike at least an hour every Thursday even with all the automation I have built in. Aggregating the payments in chunks of $25 or more helps us reduce the number of payments and the time we spend handling them.

3. We are planning to add new features that will make use of the $$ you save up in your account. Say, how would you like to spend $0.5 or $1 and improve the chances of your deal to get noticed by others? This is where the saving will come handy.

4. We would really like to encourage people to save up a bit before they withdraw. Isn't it a frugal thing to do?

As to the comment that new users will get discouraged... I think you guys already have enough competition. Our current priority is to bring more features to Buxr for the members who do not participate in the contests and to make their shopping/community experience more pleasant. More about it later.

OK, all payments have been sent to those who requested them. We still see a lot of people who are eligible, but have not requested payment. Please try do so in a timely manner so we can get your payments out as soon as possible.

$25 can take a while for people who are not frequent. They might lose interest and never come back.

Or MAYBE

the first payout you can probably keep as $10 and the subsequent ones at $25. Then the newbie who wins the first time sees some real prize money and retains interest in the website. ( Apart from them being drawn by the SUPER deals we post )